Newb syncing question

jonschatz

Hi, new to Zotero. Really like it so far though, especially with the additional functionality added by Zutilo.

Anyhow, here's my question. I installed just a few days ago and initially just played around with it, importing a few items, etc.

Then, I imported a my huge library (~1800 refs nearly all with PDFs, ~4.5G) as an RIS file after export from Papers3. This worked beautifully, putting all the PDFs in Zotero's filing system and keeping all the key metadata, etc.

When I look at the "My Library" tab online, however, it contains only the initial 3-4 items I imported when I was initially just playing around with Zotero, but apparently no syncing has happened since I imported my big library.

Is the lag just due to the large size and the time it will take to sync all this stuff, or has syncing now somehow turned off?

Thanks for any help!

dstillman

Start here: https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/changes_not_syncing

It doesn't look like you've synced in a few days.

adamsmith

It could be related to the large sync, although 2k items isn't _that_ big, but if since sync is currently all or nothing it's not a lag, so we'd want to figure out what's happening. Do you have automatic sync turned on in the Sync tab of the Zotero preferences?
If so, is there a red exclamation mark to the left of the green, round sync arrow? If that's the case, click that and you may get a useful message on what's preventing syncing.
Let's start with this, if that's not helping we can see about some other things.